Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make something alcoholic, typically through fermentation: The process of converting a substance into one containing alcohol.
   • To treat, saturate, or infuse something with alcohol: To add or combine with alcohol.
   • To subject someone to the influence of alcohol: To cause someone to become intoxicated or under the effects of alcohol.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • The process will alcoholize the fruit juice, turning it into wine.
  • To preserve the specimen, they decided to alcoholize it.
  • The celebration alcoholized the entire group by the end of the night.

Advanced Usage

• Technical/Chemical Context: Often used in scientific or industrial settings to describe the act of introducing or producing alcohol in a substance.
  • The new yeast strain can efficiently alcoholize sugars at a lower temperature.
• Medical/Historical Context: Can refer to the preservation of biological tissues in alcohol.
  • In the 19th century, it was common to alcoholize anatomical samples for study.

Variants and Related Words

• Alcoholization (n): The act or process of alcoholizing.
  • The alcoholization of the beverage was carefully monitored.
• Alcoholise (v): British English spelling variant of 'alcoholize'.
• Dealcoholize (v): The opposite process; to remove alcohol from something.

Synonyms

• Ferment (v): To undergo or cause to undergo fermentation, often leading to alcohol production.
• Intoxicate (v): To cause someone to lose control of their faculties due to alcohol or drugs (specifically for the third meaning).
• Imbue with alcohol (v phrase): To infuse or saturate with alcohol.

Related Phrases

• To be alcoholized: A state of being under the influence of alcohol.
  • After the party, he was completely alcoholized and couldn't drive.
• Alcoholized solution: A solution in which alcohol is the solvent or a major component.
  • The tincture is an alcoholized solution of the herbal extract.

Verb

1. make alcoholic, as by fermenting
   • alcoholize prunes
2. treat or infuse with alcohol
   • alcoholize the fruit and let them sit in the refrigerator
3. subject to the influence of alcohol
   • After we finished dinner, we were thoroughly alcoholized